"Story centers on a 15-year-old boy named Craig who, battling depression, checks himself into a psychiatric hospital but finds himself placed in the adult ward.

He has a series of colorful and dramatic relationships with a group of adults -- many of whom he finds are far crazier than he is -- and a girl his own age."

"[W]hat's terrific about the book is Craig's voice -- intimate, real, funny, ironic, and one kids will come closer to hear," promises Booklist. "This book offers hope in a package that readers will find enticing, and that's the gift it offers."

"The film will be an amalgamation of the famed diary; the stage adaptation by Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich; and Mamet's own original take on the material that could reframe the story as a young girl's rite of passage. Frank, who died at 15 in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, became an icon of the Holocaust after the post-war publication of the diary that she kept during the two years that her family hid in a secret attic apartment in Amsterdam."

"The package includes cooperation with the Hank Williams estate that gives the production use of his most memorable recordings. Also, 821 has optioned the rights to Hank Williams: The Biography, a book by Colin Escott that is being used as a resource by Abraham. Escott will be associate producer."

Who would make a good Hank Williams on film? Or should they go with a complete unknown?